580 itemsWelcome to The Computer Magazine Archives

With the re-branding of computing power and machines as something welcome in the home and not just the workshop, a number of factors moved forth to sell these machines and their software to a growing and large group of customers. Besides the introduction of more elegant cases and an increased presence by larger and larger firms, a strong argument can be made that one of the forces was the proliferation of computer-related magazines and newsletters that gave a central, printed home for writing about computers. Rising from user support groups, computer companies themselves, and publishing houses willing to risk cash and time to fund them, these magazines set the stage for the home computer revolution.

This collection consists of dozens of magazine runs, digitized from fading piles of older magazines by an army of anonymous contributors. In some cases, quality is variant, due to the rareness of the issues. Special thanks and recognition are given to sites bombjack.org, atarimagazines.com.

This collection is primarily of computer magazines written in the english language. There are additional collections in other languages:

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68 Micro Magazine Description Forthcoming	123 items
80 Microcomputing Magazine 80 Microcomputing, also known as 80 Micro, was the most famous of the TRS-80 magazines and the best remembered. It was the first of the platform-specific computer magazines to become very popular,...	75 items
8000 Plus Magazine 8000 Plus (renamed PCW Plus early in 1992) was a monthly British magazine dedicated to the Amstrad PCW range of microcomputers. It was one of the earliest magazines from Future Publishing, and ran...	40 items
A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing Magazine A.N.A.L.O.G. (from Atari Newsletter And Lots Of Games) was an American computer magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit home computer line. It was known for its "advanced" programs in comparison to most...	79 items
ACE Magazine Archive ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) was a multi-format computer and video game magazine first published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing and later acquired by EMAP. Launched in October...	55 items
Acorn Programs Magazine Description Forthcoming	5 items
Ahoy! Magazine Archive Ahoy! was a magazine published between January 1984 and January 1989 that focused on all Commodore International color computers, but especially the Commodore 64 and Amiga. It was noted for the...	62 items
Amazing Computing Magazine Description Forthcoming	157 items
Amiga Computing Magazine Amiga Computing (UK Edition) issues 1-127 (June 1988 - October 1997) Amiga Computing was a long-lived and respected magazine published initially by Europress, and later IDG, covering most aspects of...	117 items
Amiga World Magazine	106 items
Amstrad Action Magazine From Wikipedia: Amstrad Action was a monthly magazine, published in the United Kingdom, which catered to owners of home computers from the Amstrad CPC range and later the GX4000 console. It was the...	117 items
Amstrad Profesional / PC Soft Magazine Description Forthcoming	34 items
Amtix Magazine Description Forthcoming	19 items
Antic Magazine Collection From Wikipedia: Antic was the name of a home computer magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit computer line (Atari 400/800 and compatibles). Its ISSN is 0113-1141. It took its name from the ANTIC chip...	166 items
Atari Computing Magazine (UK) Description Forthcoming	16 items
Atari Corporate Magazines Description Forthcoming	20 items
Atari User Magazine (UK) Atari User was a British computer magazine aimed at users of Atari home computers, and published by Database Publications (later known as Europress) between 1985 and 1988. It was a general-interest...	44 items
Australian Rainbow Magazine Description Forthcoming	25 items
Big K Magazine Big K was a multi format magazine published by IPC Magazines Ltd during the 1980s. Descriptions for these issues have been provided by Steven Zakulec.	13 items
Blip Magazine "Blip: The Video Games Magazine" was a short-lived monthly video game magazine published by Marvel Comics and edited by Joe Claro. The first issue was published in February 1983, and the seventh and...	7 items
c't: Magazin Fur Computer Technik c't: Magazin Fur Computer Technik. German magazine for computers.	3 items
Color Computer Magazine Color Computer Magazine	19 items
Commander Magazine Commander Magazine was a relatively short-lived (two years) magazine geared for the Commodore 64 and Vic-20 computers, published between 1982-1984. Professionally published, it was a competitor to...	17 items
Commodore DiskUser Magazine Commodore Disk User was a magazine for the Commodore range of computers, including the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and Commodore Plus/4. Each issue came with a cover mounted disk containing...	36 items
Commodore Format Magazine Commodore Format was a British magazine for users of the Commodore 64 home computer. All sixty-one issues of the magazine were produced by Future Publishing. These came towards the end of the...	62 items
Commodore Horizons Magazine First issue was published in 1983 Dec/Jan 1984 and the last in March 1986 for a total of 27 issues. Starting in April 1986 with Issue 28 the magazine changed its name to Commodore and Amiga Horizons.	27 items
Commodore Magazine Commodore Magazine Volume 8, 9, and 10. Lived from January of 1987 to October of 1989.	34 items
Commodore User Magazine Description Forthcoming	78 items
Commodore World Magazine Description Forthcoming	25 items
Compute! Gazette (1983-1990) From Wikipedia: COMPUTE!'s Gazette (ISSN 0737-3716) was a computer magazine of the 1980s, directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers. Publishing its first issue in July 1983, the Gazette...	87 items
Compute! Magazine Archive From Wikipedia: Compute! (ISSN 0194-357X) was an American computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994, though it can trace its origin to 1978 in Len Lindsay's PET Gazette, one of the first...	159 items
Computer Age Magazine Description Forthcoming	16 items
Computer and Video Games Magazine Description Forthcoming	129 items
Computer and Videogames Magazine Computer and Video Games Magazine	126 items
Computer Magazine Rack This collection consists of a variety of magazines, digitized from a number of sources, that do not have a comprehensive and non-comprehensive collection available.	16 items
Computer Monthly Magazine Description Forthcoming	22 items
Computer Programmert Zur Unterhaltung Description Forthcoming	11 items
ComputerKontakt Magazine Description Forthcoming	30 items
Computist Magazine Archive Computist magazine was an Apple-II oriented publication distributed and sold between 1981 and 1993. Created by Charles Haight of Softkey Publishing, the magazine was dedicated primarily to issues of...	107 items
CPC Attack Magazine CPC Attack! was a short-lived magazine dedicated to Amstrad CPC gaming. The magazine was a successor to Amstrad Computer User magazine. It was characterised by a strong comic-like graphical style...	6 items
Crash Magazine Archive Description Forthcoming	100 items
CVG Magazine Archives Computer and Video Games Magazine Issues 01-126 (November 1981 - May 1992) plus Yearbooks. Computer and Video Games (C+VG) was a long-running multi-format UK-based magazine. It went through several...	129 items
Die Hard: The Flyer for Commodore 8bitters Description Forthcoming	23 items
Dragon User Magazine Description Forthcoming	69 items
Elbug Magazine Description Forthcoming	17 items
Electronic Games Magazine Electronic Games was the first video game magazine published in the United States and ran from 1981 to 1985. It was co-founded by Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel. Please note: Currently, this collection...	18 items
Enter Magazine Enter was an American magazine produced from October 1983 to May 1985 by Children's Television Workshop (CTW, later renamed Sesame Workshop). Similar to sibling titles Sesame Street, The Electric...	17 items
Family Computing Magazine Description Forthcoming	67 items
HappyComputer (German) Description Forthcoming	20 items
Home Computing Weekly Magazine Description Forthcoming	133 items
Info Magazine INFO Magazine.	50 items
K Power Magazine K-Power described itself as "The Magazine for the Computer Generation". It was a computer magazine with an emphasis on education, published in the United States by Scholastic, Inc and edited by Anne...	14 items
Laserbug Magazine Issues of Laserbug Magazine	14 items
LED Micro Magazine Description Forthcoming	41 items
Magazine ZX (Spectrum) Description Forthcoming	16 items
Mean Machines Magazine Mean Machines itself started life as a console-only section within the pages of Computer and Video Games Magazine. First featured in the October 1987 issue of the magazine, the section mainly covered...	28 items
Mean Machines SEGA Magazine Description Forthcoming	53 items
Micro 6502 Journal Description Forthcoming	76 items
Micro Adventurer Magazine In November 1983, Sunshine books entered the magazine market with a new publication which was aimed solely at war gamers, strategists and adventurers. This was of course the late-lamented Micro...	17 items
MicroAdventurer Magazine In November 1983, Sunshine books entered the magazine market with a new publication which was aimed solely at war gamers, strategists and adventurers. This was of course the late-lamented Micro...	17 items
Midnite Software Gazette Description Forthcoming	40 items
N-Force Magazine (SNES and NES) Description Forthcoming	24 items
Popular Computing Weekly Popular Computing Weekly was a computer magazine in the UK published from the early 1980s until the early 1990s. It was sometimes referred to as PCW (although that abbreviation is more commonly...	241 items
Raze Magazine Issues 01-12 (Nov 1990 - Oct 1991) Raze was a multi-format videogame magazine published by Newsfield Publications from October 1990 to September 1991 and was the successor to Newsfield’s own multi-format title The Games Machine. The...	11 items
RUN Magazine Archives From Wikipedia: RUN was an American computer magazine published monthly by IDG Communications with its first issue debuting in January 1984. Bi-monthly publishing began in June/July 1990 (issue #78,...	100 items
Sinclair User Magazine Sinclair User, often abbreviated SU, was a magazine dedicated to the Sinclair Research range of home computers, most specifically the ZX Spectrum. Initially published by ECC Publications, and later...	137 items
SoftSide Magazine SoftSide Magazine is a defunct computer magazine, begun in October 1978 by Roger Robitaille and published by SoftSide Publications of Milford, New Hampshire. Descriptions for this collection have...	82 items
Super Soft Magazine Description Forthcoming	9 items
The Gamers Collection Description Forthcoming	4 items
The Games Machine Magazine The Games Machine was Newsfield's multi-format magazine, launched as a sister publication to Crash, Zzap! 64 and Amtix. It covered most formats of the day, with emphasis on the emerging 16-bit...	34 items
The Games Machine Magazine The Games Machine was a video game magazine that was published from 1987 until 1990 in the United Kingdom by Newsfield, which also published CRASH, Zzap!64, Amtix! and other magazines. The magazine...	35 items
The Rainbow (TRS-80 Color Computer Magazine) The Rainbow was a monthly magazine for the TRS-80 Color Computer by the Tandy Corporation (now RadioShack). It was started by the late Lawrence C. Falk (commonly known as Lonnie Falk) and was...	143 items
The Transactor Magazine The Transactor magazine started as a 2-page newsletter dated April 30, 1978 and was published throughout the 1980's. One of the noted C64 hardware-hacking magazines, it was originally published by...	67 items
TheOne Magazine The One was a video game magazine in the United Kingdom which covered 16-bit home gaming during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was first published by EMAP in October 1988 and initially covered...	89 items
TPUG Magazine Short for Toronto Pet Users Group. This newsletter archive is missing Issues #1 and #6. TPUG Magazine #25 - (August/September) 1986 - Flight Simulation #24 - (June/July) 1986 - Orphan Computers #23...	23 items
TV Gamer Magazine Description Forthcoming	14 items
Undercolor Magazine Description Forthcoming	11 items
Your 64 Magazine "Your 64" was a British computer magazine aimed at users of the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 home computers, launched by Sportscene Specialist Press in 1984 as a sister title to "Your Spectrum." Initially...	15 items
Your Commodore Magazine (1984-1991) From Wikipedia: Your Commodore was a magazine for the Commodore range of computers, including the Commodore 64, Amiga, and Commodore PC range. Although first seen as a supplement in July 1984's...	84 items
Your Computer Magazine Description Forthcoming	71 items
Your Sinclair Magazine Your Sinclair Magazine Issues 01-94 (January 1986 - September 1993. Your Sinclair was the successor to Your Spectrum, and focused on entertainment more than its predecessor. There's still a fair...	93 items
Your Spectrum Magazine Your Spectrum Issues 01-21 (Jan 1984 - Dec 1985). Your Spectrum was a hobbyist publication, originally published bi-monthly in 1984, before quickly turning into a monthly magazine. Although strongly...	21 items
Zero Magazine Description Forthcoming	37 items
ZX Computing Magazine ZX Computing Magazine Issues 01-38 (Summer 1992 - May 1987). ZX Computing was published by Argus Specialist Publications and covered all Sinclair micros, from the ZX80 through to the QL and Spectrum...	37 items
ZX Computing Magazine Description Forthcoming	40 items
ZZap!64 Magazine Zzap!64 was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 (C64). It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd...	108 items